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...just before Frank's scheduled execution. Governor John Marshall Slaton commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. A mob threatened the Governor's home. Martial law was declared. Troops were called out to save Governor Slaton from being torn limb from limb by citizens who charged he had been bribed with Jewish gold from New York to spare Frank's life. That commutation ruined Slaton's political career...
Georgia. Renominated by a 4-to-1 vote was bushy-browed Democratic Senator William Julius Harris over John Marshall Slaton. One issue of their campaign was the fact that 15 years ago Mr. Slaton, as Governor, had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, later lynched. Eleven of the State's Congressmen were renominated while the twelfth, Representative Thomas Montgomery Bell, was defeated by Judge John Woods. A run-off primary was necessary to decide the gubernatorial nomination...
...Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta; Miss Alcy Sivyer, Milwaukee; Miss Sylvia Brewster, Miss Charlotte B. Brown and Mrs. Lawrence B. Van Ingen, New York; Mrs. Edward A. Leight, Chicago; Miss Elizabeth Sturges, Providence, R. I.; and the onetime Miss Maude Hunnewell, recent bride of U. S. Charge...